There is a new ubiquitous media brand on Twitter. No, I'm not talking about Pierre Omidyar's First Look Media or BuzzFeed or The Verge, or any other investor-backed startup. I'm talking about @HistoryInPics, which, as I discovered, is run by two teen...

In this democracy, with its relatively low voter turnout (about 60% in 2012, depending on who you ask) and highly partisan Congress, anything that sparks engagement in the political process is a plus. Enter Texas State Senator Wendy Davis. By now, yo...

Traditionally, journalists have lived for the scoop: Get the story first, and let your competitors read about it on tomorrow's front page. But to be successful at media innovation, journalists and media companies need to focus less on competition and...

Ken Lerer, one of the co-founders of The Huffington Post and the current chairman of BuzzFeed, has pulled back the curtain on his latest venture: a video news site called NowThisNews. The startup officially launched on Monday after months of operatin...

Ray Bradbury, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of some of the most widely read science fiction work in U.S. history, died at 91 at his home in Los Angeles Wednesday morning. One might suspect a figure so interested in fictional futures would prove enthu...

At the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Show, digital media professionals will present, educate and collaborate on the industry’s latest technology. The show takes place April 14-19 in Las Vegas, Nev. Founded in 1923, NAB has certainly come...

Following in the footsteps of Storify, a new free, open-source online timeline tool is innovating storytelling on the web. Timeline, created by Zach Wise, a multimedia journalist and journalism professor, was developed in partnership with the Knight ...

Chris Hughes, 28-year-old new media mogul and Facebook co-founder, is now the publisher and editor-in-chief of The New Republic after buying a majority stake of the long-standing progressive magazine. Hughes revealed his plans for TNR in a letter Fri...

Susannah Vila is a co-founder of the engine room, an organization that investigates and supports digital advocacy. Connect with her on Twitter @szvila. The movement that began on Sept. 17 in New York City was initiated in part by a Canadian magazine ...

NPR has just released a fascinating set of stats about its Twitter followers, including information about how much they click through, how they get their news, how they interact with content and even how old they are. In a survey of more than 10,000 ...

Despite newspaper share prices seeing a 380% increase in the last year, don't be swayed by the perceived recovery. The only way for newspapers to survive is by investing resources into innovation online. Experiments are needed that not only challenge...

So what's the future of news? A Local Wiki platform that allows citizens to easily maintain news about their community? A tool for that would allow news organizations to create real-time ads? Or is it mapped news integrated with social sites? These a...

The top stories in the mainstream press are markedly different than those that lead on social media platforms, a recent study by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism revealed. Furthermore, what is popular on one social netwo...

Pope Benedict XVI has a message for priests of the Catholic Church: They must proclaim the gospel by not only having a website, but by blogging and utilizing new web communication tools. The 265th Pope of the Catholic Church has been an unexpectedly ...

The news media is experiencing a renaissance. As we end the year, its state in 2009 can be summarized as a year of turmoil, layoffs and cutbacks in an industry desperately seeking to reinvent its business model and content. But despite the thousands ...

With the news industry struggling to find new revenue streams that can reshape their broken business model, 2010 will be defined by experiments in news media monetization. This will also include content that is guided more than ever by the audience a...

A few days ago, we received a unique invite to meet with the Congressional House Republican New Media Caucus at a Silicon Valley round table "to promote dialog between California's Silicon Valley and House Republicans." Did you even know that there w...

Vadim Lavrusik is a new media student at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He is @lavrusik on Twitter and blogs at Lavrusik.com. Though there are countless articles and blog posts sprawled across the web about the dying newspaper...

On June 12th, Iran held its presidential elections between incumbent Ahmadinejad and rival Mousavi. The result, a landslide for Ahmadinejad, has led to violent riots across Iran, charges of voting fraud, and protests worldwide. How can you best keep ...

Woody Lewis is a Social Media Strategist and Web Architect. He authors a blog at woodylewis.com about social media strategy for newspapers. Social media has infiltrated nearly every aspect of our public and private lives, from the White House providi...

This post is part of Mashable’s Social Media Hub Series, which shines the spotlight on local social media communities, companies and personalities. The series is supported by Virgin America. New York City is rife with digital savvy and entrepreneuria...

Woody Lewis is a Social Media Strategist and Web Architect. He authors a blog at woodylewis.com about social media strategy for newspapers. Social media has changed journalism. The Web is now the sole distribution channel for newspapers that can no l...

Woody Lewis is a Social Media Strategist and Web Architect. He authors a blog at woodylewis.com about social media strategy for newspapers. I recently wrote about newspapers using social media to save the industry. Since then, the Seattle Post-Intell...

Woody Lewis is a Social Media Strategist and Web Architect. He authors a blog at woodylewis.com about social media strategy for newspapers. These days, everyone knows that one of the hottest stories any newspaper can cover is that of its own demise. ...

Quick: what was the most widely-used form of media in 2008? If you guessed Internet news sites, blogs, or social networks, you’d be way off. Network TV news (NBC, CBS, ABC) is still used by the highest percentage of adult Internet users, with local n...

Catherine-Gail Reinhard is VP and creative director at Videasa, a leading web video company. Prior to becoming a digital media maven, Catherine's reviews lined the pages of Time Out New York. With swaths of imitation-pine already beginning to appear ...

What is social media, and is social media actually media in the traditional sense of the word? This is the question Jeffrey and Brian Eisenberg take on and try to decisively answer at their marketing firm's company blog. They say it is disingenuous t...

The Christian Science Monitor is being faced with the same choice that the New York Times is facing: change or adapt. They're wisely choosing adaptation, as word filters down through the blogosphere that the last print edition of the 100 year old nat...

The buzz has more or less died down, at least in the pages of Gawker, MediaShift, TechDirt and Romenesko. But our very own Alana Taylor did a feature for PBS blog MediaShift, a commentary really, on the lack of New Media savvy amongst the students an...

It's rare that I find a short article with so many things wrong with it as I did this evening. As per usual, after I put out an editorial on a topic I tend to get IMs and emails from my friends with article suggestions along the same lines, and Steve...

I remember working on a digital handheld project back in 2005 or so, and during our research phase, we came across the e-Ink technology in its early stages of development. The display material wasn't (and still isn't) of the caliber required to be a ...

People often speak of old and new media as a dichotomy, with stodgy network television channels and traditional newspapers on the one hand, and hip, technologically sophisticated youth on the other. But recently, old media –- in particular, large tel...

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